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...early '80s was a horrific time for all of us in the industry. All kinds of businesses just went in the toilet and GE was in some of those businesses," Buckman says...
...coughed, something catching at the back of her throat. She had heard that burning mercury was dangerous, but she didn't believe it. After all, another worker had mistakenly drunk from a bottle of pure quicksilver?and he was okay. It had all come out in the toilet. Still, Femmy wondered if she should consult a doctor, for the baby if not for herself. Only three more months...
After Jacob Davis used a magnum bolt-action rifle to mow down his girlfriend's ex-lover at his Tennessee high school in 1998, he dropped down beside the bleeding body. A friend came over and said to Davis, "Man, you just flushed your life down the toilet." Davis replied, "Yes, but it's been fun." The fun didn't last. Today Davis is serving a 52-year term at a medium-security correctional facility in Clifton, Tenn. Before the shooting, he had received an academic scholarship to study computer science at Mississippi State University. Instead, he takes a prison...
...just enough to buy soap, shampoo and stationery, which the Spring Creek Correctional Center does not supply for free. His face pasty white from lack of sun, Ramsey told TIME his biggest complaint is the total absence of privacy. The light is always on in his cell, and the toilet sits in the open at the end of his bunk...
...Backroom political scheming is kept to a happy minimum as Chaykin makes sure to include enough cursing, killing, and nudity (not to mention fouled-toilet-bowl fishing), to keep action fans turning the page. Penciler Laming has a clear, almost photo-realist style that makes the book more reminiscent of a film than a comic. At the same time, the sharp inks by John Stokes give characters a strange, though not unpleasant, porcelain look- almost like Jeff Koons' pornographic sculptures...